Diagonals of decagon

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Diagonals of decagon

Unread post by samiul_samin » Tue Feb 19, 2019 5:22 pm

How many intersection point will you get if draw all the diagonal of a $10$ gon?
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Re: Diagonals of decagon

Unread post by samiul_samin » Tue Feb 19, 2019 5:29 pm

This is BdMO regional 2016 Question.
Hard way
Draw a $10$ gon
Draw all the diagonals and count the intersection points.
You will get $210$ intersection points.
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Easy way
We will get an intersection point if we can get $4$ points from $10$ points.
So,answer is $\dbinom {10}{4}=210$

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